long friend

There are three fires for a new official to take office, but Xiao Qichen obviously overfired this time.

Wang Di was the first to jump up to object, followed by Guang Luqing who led a group of dignified civil servants to threaten them with political careers, and said harshly that if the military policy was implemented seriously, they would all resign collectively.

Xiao Qichen didn't speak, and the generals immediately became angry when they heard this.Su Yan can still hold his breath. General Shang Lu has been stationed on the northeast frontier all year round. He is a straightforward and iron-blooded man. Do you still want to oppose corrupt government orders?

Civil servants and military generals were arguing, if Xiao Qichen hadn't been sitting on it, he would have been able to stage a full martial arts on the spot.

But no matter how dissatisfied the courtiers were with Xiao Qichen's New Deal, the New Year still had to pass.

The routine court meeting on New Year's Eve ended in a two-way verbal attack. Su Yan returned to the mansion with a headache and talked about those trivial matters with his parents.He had wanted to reform the military system in Daliang Kingdom for a long time. After discussing with Shen Chengjun and others for a long time, he finally came up with a preliminary idea in compromise. Unexpectedly, it was unanimously resisted by civil servants.

Su Yan originally wanted to retain the foreign troops from the six states and twelve counties across the country, but the ordinary soldiers had to be exchanged, either recruiting or selecting.Afterwards, the generals of Xiaoqiwei will be sent to various places as coaches, and there will be no more mobility problems.When the system is mature, the foreign army commanders in each state and county will be rotated regularly to prevent the situation of self-reliance.

Only in this way, it will take at least five to eight years to take shape.Su Yan himself had plenty of time to realize it, but those civil servants became anxious for him without drunkenness, and almost pointed at Su Yan on the spot and scolded: "Are you trying to cut off our money?!"

He told Su Zhi all this without reservation, thinking that he would stand with him on the united front.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Su Zhi told him: "This is very difficult. If you really want to do it, you may ruin your own future. Even if you fail, you still insist on doing this?"

Su Yan knew that he was looking out for his own good, so he still said stubbornly: "Father, Emperor Wu has been around for almost a hundred years, so should he stick to that? I'm at the time of ZTE—it depends on human effort."

He was very resolute when he said these four words. Su Zhi had never seen this appearance before, so he was at a loss for words for a moment, feeling that all his so-called past experiences were not counted.So he sighed, and said to Su Yan: "In this case, you can decide for yourself. I will leave the Xiaoqiwei to you, and it must not be destroyed."

The New Year's Eve dinner of the big family is actually not much more luxurious than that of ordinary people. The Su family is sparsely populated, and the servants who have been in the house for many years will sit together.Since Su Yan was stationed in the army, he hadn't had many serious meals at home, and he didn't like to talk too much, so the old housekeeper and Mrs. Cao had some conversations during the dinner, and the atmosphere was quite harmonious.

Su Heng was not as afraid of him as he was at the beginning—he used to take a detour whenever he saw Su Yan, and the two of them had only a handful of conversations in the past five or six years—this year he took the initiative to sit next to Su Yan, holding the bowl upright in both hands, facing towards Su Yan. Put it in front of him.

Su Yan held his own chopsticks, didn't realize it for a while, and tentatively put a piece of fish into his bowl.Now Su Heng was happy, and took the bowl back again, as if to say hello to Su Yan.

Apart from that, there is not much to say.

A New Year's Eve dinner made Su Yan feel complicated. After the end, Mrs. Cao and Su Heng went to the street to set off firecrackers, while Lord Hou had to rest.No one paid any attention to Su Yan, he thought about it, and slipped out of the house quietly.

The night is not yet deep, the alleys on New Year's Eve are full of children playing noises, firecrackers explode and the ground is red, and the scent of Tusu wine floats in the air. Although the surroundings are noisy, they are uniquely comfortable.The streets were quieter, and the guards on duty at night gathered in twos and threes, drank a cup of rice wine to warm up, and said a few words about Chinese New Year before going around to inspect.

Su Yan walked all the way to Taicheng along the main street. Because of the palace ban, several city gates were closed.After thinking for a while, he knocked on a small door reserved for soldiers of the Imperial Army to enter and exit.

The imperial guards guarding the city recognized him and thought something serious had happened. Just as they were about to raise their voices to announce, Su Yan quickly held him down: "Take me...to the Taiji West Hall, and keep quiet."

Immediately, the officers and soldiers of the imperial army thought that he had some imperial orders, and they did not dare to delay, and led them forward cautiously.

Compared with the noisy Jinling City, the festive atmosphere in the palace is not strong.Xiao Qichen didn't have any concubines, the palace was vacant, several concubines gathered together to spend a year with the queen mother, the two younger princesses and a prince also went with them.Red lanterns adorned the road, but it made the surrounding deserted even more.

The more Su Yan walked towards the west hall, the more sad he felt.

His impression of New Year's Eve in the palace still stays in Tongning for 24 years, when he was only nine years old, Xiao Yan was still a wise king, and the few princes under his knees didn't have such serious thoughts, and they never plotted against each other.Xiao Qiping led the young people through the deep palace and walked to the tower on the south side of Taicheng City, looking at the lights of Wanjia.

That year Xiao Qichen couldn't stay up all night, leaning against the thick bricks of the city wall and yawning, was so sleepy that he was about to cry.After returning to the East Palace, Xiao Qichen watched the New Year with them, and fell asleep on Su Yan's back halfway.

From outside the square to Taiji West Hall, Su Yan was surprised that his memory of Xiao Qichen was so complete.

He looked up at the Tai Chi Hall, which was close at hand. The twelve palaces symbolized the twelve months of the year, and they were majestic and majestic under the sky on weekdays, surpassing the past and the present.At this moment, the sky is dark blue, and among these palaces, only a warm pavilion in the west hall is lit, and the dim warmth through the window creates a little loneliness in the boundless night.

There was no one on duty outside the Nuan Pavilion, but Su Yan knew that there must be hidden guards around.He stood at the door for a while, but saw no one coming, so he knocked on the door—this action was especially nondescript in the solemn imperial city, but Su Yan somehow had the illusion that they had lived together for many years.

Xiao Qichen's still sober voice came from inside: "Who?"

His heart was so soft with this word, he cleared his throat, and said in a deep voice, "It's me."

Then no one spoke, Su Yan stood at the door, and heard the sound of his clothes rubbing when he got up inside, followed by footsteps coming towards this side in a little hurry.He couldn't help smiling, he knew that he had just met someone this morning, so why did he seem to miss him a little bit again, as if he couldn't do it if he didn't see him for a while.

Su Yan stood here waiting for Xiao Qichen, and heard him getting closer.The door in front of him was pulled open from the inside, and the cold night wind poured in with this movement. Before he could see clearly, he was grabbed by the wrist and dragged a step forward. Immediately, a person hugged his waist tightly. Waist, head buried in the neck.

He thought: "Day and night, beautiful scenery on a good day...the so-called joy is nothing more than that."

Xiao Qichen let him go, stretched his hand past Su Yan and closed the door, and said in surprise: "Shouldn't you be at home? Did you have a conflict with your parents and came to comfort me?"

Su Yan laughed and rubbed his head.

It should be because he was in the Nuan Pavilion, Xiao Qichen loosened his hair bun, and tied his hair with a headband at the back of his head, with a few strands hanging in front, very casual.He only wore a middle coat and a robe over it, and there was a charcoal fire in the warm pavilion. After all, the winter in the south of the Yangtze River was not as harsh as in the north, so it was warm enough.

"Mother accompanied Heng'er to watch the firecrackers, so I... wanted to go out for a walk, and somehow I came to Miyagi. So since I came here, I thought you might want to watch the year, so I might as well accompany you." Su Yan Yue spoke in a softer voice, but Xiao Qichen was delighted to hear it, and there was light in his eyes.

Su Yan looked around, seeing that there was such a huge warm pavilion—even such a huge Tai Chi Hall, a Taicheng—that Xiao Qichen had no one to accompany him, and felt very sad for a moment.

Xiao Qichen never mentioned these moments of being alone, maybe because he was embarrassed, but more because he was used to it.The two of them are similar in this point, they are used to loneliness, so they cherish the time when they can be in the same room and have a heart-to-heart.

Seeing that he was stepping on the ground with bare feet, Su Yan drove Xiao Qichen to the bed, poured a cup of tea himself, and said, "Shall I spend the night at your place tonight? Going back at this time will inevitably disturb the servants at home, and I feel very sorry. "

"Come to disturb me, are you really sorry?" Xiao Qichen pursed his lips and asked back, pretending to be wronged for a moment, then took off his outer robe with a smile, and shrank himself into the heavy quilt, "It's just right, come up, let's order Keep the New Year's Eve with a lamp until tomorrow morning."

Su Yan nodded and said yes, he turned off the bright lights everywhere, leaving only one candlestick alone on the table to light up.

After he simply changed his clothes and sat on the outside of the bed, Xiao Qichen lifted a corner of the quilt to signal him to go over, and the two rolled together.The appearance of falling asleep on feet seems to be back to childhood, Su Yan thought so, and said it, the atmosphere is not as beautiful as before, but presents a kind of warmth that goes back in time.

"Ayan," Xiao Qichen stood next to him, and the hot air from his breath hit Su Yan's ears warmly, "I grew up in a deep palace, and I have never seen how loving couples get along with each other, do you know?"

Su Yan was agitated by his sudden question and made a "hmm" at first, then he came back to his senses, his face blushed suddenly, and hesitantly said: "I raise my eyebrows together, I occasionally quarrel over trivial matters, but I never want to separate...Left is just, For the rest of my life, I will never leave."

He was a little yearning for what he said, but he knew how they could do it with their identities. It was half resentment and half torture for a while.

Xiao Qichen was playing with his fingers under the quilt, the candlelight was flickering, and the shadows under his eyelashes flickered from time to time.I don't know what he was thinking, but he spoke after a while, his voice hoarse than usual, as if he was very shy, and it came into Su Yan's ears lightly: "Is this really the case? I also want to be with you forever."

Su Yan couldn't speak for a moment, his throat seemed to be blocked, so he could only hold him back.

Xiao Qichen said again: "Ayan, sometimes I want to give you everything, and I won't leave you even if I keep you by my side. Sometimes I feel that people who are born to belong to the battlefield can't be trapped in Taicheng. If you really like it, you should Let you go to make contributions in the world... It is too tiring to be a wise master, when I am with you, I just want to be a mediocre person."

Su Yan ran along his long hair, hugged the person lying on his side, kissed the tip of Xiao Qichen's nose, all the way to his lips, but only rubbed against him, then let go, and said in a low voice: "Then Be mediocre. Ah Chen, don't hesitate too much, I will protect you and guard you, and I won't go anywhere."

"Are you really not going this time?" Xiao Qichen said with a smile.

Su Yan nodded, resting his chin on the top of his head: "When the New Deal is really carried out, there will be people guarding the world, and I won't have to go to the front line in times of war——I've obeyed your words, and it's natural."

Xiao Qichen poked him under the jaw: "I said why I was so active this time, it turned out to be premeditated for a long time!"

Su Yan refused to admit it, and clasped his hands in his arms so hard that he couldn't move. He talked about what happened afterwards: "I heard that on the night of Yuanxi, the lanterns on the Qinhuai River floated downstream. The scene is very beautiful. I will take you there, okay?"

Xiao Qichen was very dissatisfied with him changing the subject so often, he whimpered and twisted to break free, and bit Su Yan a few more times, until he left a dark mark on his neck.

The whispering between the curtains lasted until after the third watch, Xiao Qichen couldn't hold it anymore, and then his eyelids became heavier and heavier, and he fell asleep in Su Yan's arms.Considering that he had to get up early the next day, Su Yan patted his hand slowly on the back. She didn't feel sleepy at all, but wished to remember every bit of time exactly.

Outside the hall was even longer, and the candles of the New Year's Eve were not burned out until the east was turning pale.

Su Yan was hugged extremely firmly by Xiao Qichen in his sleep. He gnawed on his face in a muffled voice, and said to himself: "It's been a year with you, I haven't slept together for a long time, why are you still like when I was a child..."

When I was a child, I was restless, holding Su Yan at night and would not let go, for fear that he would sneak away.

Now that I'm older, it's even worse. I wish I could be eternal for a while, and I can grow old when I open my eyes.

Xiao Qichen slept soundly this time, but he didn't wake up naturally.However, at Pingdan, the eunuch came to inform that Tai Changqing was waiting outside the hall to prepare for the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven.

No matter how reluctant Su Yan was, he could only call Xiao Qichen first.He thought that the other party would stay in bed, but unexpectedly, as soon as he made a sound, Xiao Qichen sat up, rubbing his eyes, and hurriedly picked up the clothes beside him and put them on his body.Turning back to Su Yan, he said, "I'll ask Tianhui to go back and fetch the court clothes for you. You wait for him here. Be quiet, lest they hear that we slept together last night."

In principle, foreign ministers are not allowed to stay in Taicheng without reason, and even with the special approval of the emperor, they cannot sleep in the same bed.Su Yan nodded, Xiao Qichen smiled at him, grabbed his robe and went out.

The footsteps of maids and eunuchs gradually came in and out of the bedroom, and the servants were quick to do things. Not long after Su Yan heard Xiao Qichen say "you go down first", those people all retreated again.He yawned while sitting on the couch, when he heard people outside the house, he couldn't help getting out of bed and putting on his clothes. Before he put on his plain white coat, he went straight out.

Xiao Qichen stood in the center with his back to Su Yan, looking down at some accessories.He has always been used to doing it himself, and it is uncomfortable to have others serve him.

Su Yan casually tied up his jacket and said, "Are you going to leave now?"

Xiao Qichen didn't seem to expect him to come out at this moment, and said in a low voice: "This belt...you can fix it for me, I can't do it myself, they want to laugh when they touch it."

A jade pendant was hung on the side of his waist at the moment, Su Yan pulled his waist, first kissed Xiao Qichen's lips, and quickly and steadily undid the belt that Xiao Qichen had made a mess, and then straightened it out.There was a voice of communication from outside the hall, one of them was disheveled, the other was dressed solemnly, Xiao Qichen said quietly: "You look better like this than wearing a battle armor."

Su Yan scratched his nose: "Go, I'll change into my court clothes and go to the south altar later."

Luduan inherits Yuanji and serves the imperial world.

At Zhengdan, princes and princes are promoted to the palace, and they are called long live.

In the outskirts of Jinling City, there were two altars in the north and south from the time of Emperor Wu, which meant the sky was round and the place was round. The north altar was located on Xiaojiuhua Mountain, which was a square altar with ten feet above and twelve feet below. The south altar was located on Niushou Mountain. The round altar has an upper diameter of eleven feet and a lower diameter of eighteen feet, both of which are two feet and seven feet high. (*Note)

The ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven was held on the south altar, surrounded by imperial guards, and all the royal family members, civil and military officials were present.The ceremony was presided over by Tai Changqing. Due to the change of the year name, this year's ceremony is more solemn and the etiquette is more complicated than previous years.After sacrificing the heaven and earth, the country and the ancestors, all the ministers moved back to the Taiji Hall, where they held the first court meeting of the first lunar month in the main hall, and had a feast together.

It was rare for the court meeting on the first day of the new year not to discuss politics. After Tai Changqing read out the official enthronement edict and announced the change of Yuan, everyone just drank freely until they dispersed.

From the second day of the first lunar month to the Lantern Festival, the court meeting was temporarily closed, and the officials returned to their hometowns for family reunion, and the court meeting was resumed on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.

Xiao Qichen moved to Shanglin Garden after a bunch of complicated ceremonies were over. He didn't like living in Hualin Garden where the emperor loved him in every possible way, and he didn't like too many people following him.Xu Zhengde was very worried about this, and talked about it several times, but was finally persuaded by Lv Yizhi to promise that he would "not leave His Majesty for half a step".

As soon as he arrived at Shanglin Garden, he picked up Su Yan that night.

This is a place they are more familiar with. Su Yan has nothing to do at home, and it is rare for him to be free in the army, so he simply spends a good year with him.If it's boring and crooked, Xiao Qichen has government affairs to deal with, so he doesn't dare to be too presumptuous by turning day and night upside down.

Su Yan goes home from time to time.He tried his best to improve the relationship with Su Heng, but the other party was still very afraid of him. He always showed a look of fear and fear, always answering every question, but there was no child who was innocent in front of him.

On Yuan's Eve, Su Yan dragged Xiao Qichen out of Taicheng according to his words.

He changed the clothes he usually covered with gold and jade, put on a plain cloth, and quietly left the palace behind everyone's back.There are many tourists on both sides of the Qinhuai River during the Lantern Festival. The first month of this year will be late this year, and there is still a hazy shadow left in the severe winter, and it will be warmed by the wind of the beginning of spring.

At that time, a government school was newly established outside the Confucian Temple, but now classes have not officially started, and outside the blue tiles and white walls are people who come to put lanterns.

It is impossible to test the origin of the custom of setting off lanterns. After more than 100 years, it has become a unique scenery in the south of the Yangtze River.Most of the men are watching from the sidelines, while most of the female relatives who set up the lanterns include folk girls and wives and young ladies from rich families. The lanterns are made by them themselves, and the shapes range from ordinary lotuses to animals, all of which are charming and simple cute.

A girl who was about the same age as Huiyang leaned over and carefully put a rabbit lantern into the river, and the lantern floated away in an instant.She turned her head and smiled at the young man standing beside her. The young man put on a cloak for her, and they walked away hand in hand while chatting and laughing.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Qichen was a little envious, and pulled Su Yan's hand: "Do you have a lantern?"

Su Yan wondered: "How could I do that?"

There was no one setting up a stall nearby, so Xiao Qichen sighed and could only resign to his fate with regret.

He took Su Yan's hand and walked under a bridge. There were few people here, and occasionally a few ordinary people passed by and didn't know the emperor and general.They hid in it with a kind of secret pleasure, as if they stole a date out of their busy schedule, there were only two people and Yichuan Lantern, the hustle and bustle was behind them, but there was tranquility in front of them.

Su Yan saw that his eyes were lonely, and said: "Wait for me for a while." He turned around and ran, but Xiao Qichen couldn't stop him, so he had to stay where he was.

Not long after, the man came back with a brand new lantern in his hand.He handed the lantern to Xiao Qichen, with a brush between the two fingers of his right hand: "Here, write."

Xiao Qichen asked in surprise, "Where did you come from?"

Su Yan signaled to the bridge: "I saw a son and his wife preparing to put lanterns, and they took two, so I went up and asked if I could buy one. My wife wants it very much, but she is clumsy and can't do it. Once a year I don’t want him to have any regrets. Although he was teased by them once, he still gave it away... Don’t laugh, hurry up, I want to return the pen.”

Xiao Qichen held the lantern with one hand, wiped away the tears from the corner of his eyes, and kicked Su Yan: "Who is stupid!"

As if prepared for a long time ago, Su Yan held the ugly purse and shook it in front of Xiao Qichen, then was stepped on again, and hugged him with a smile: "Do you admit it?"

But he ignored Su Yan, and turned his head seriously to write on the lantern one stroke at a time.The lantern was made of silk, and the ink marks remained intact. He thought about it and wrote a poem.Small letters are so fine and dense that they can still be neat.After finishing writing, Xiao Qichen handed it to Su Yan, showing off, "Is it okay?"

"You always write beautifully." Su Yan praised him, and took back the brush again, "Quickly put it back."

Xiao Qichen was actually just trying to have fun, so Su Yan helped him light a short candle in the middle, and the lantern dangled on the river, then stabilized immediately.Xiao Qichen pushed along with the trend, and the lotus flower drifted leisurely towards the center of the river. In a blink of an eye, it mixed into other lanterns of different shapes and went down the river together.

Seeing his satisfied expression, Su Yan was also happy in his heart. He took his hand, remembering that he said that word so naturally in front of the couple. "My wife", in fact, he didn't want to say that, thinking it was too superficial.Xiao Qichen's meaning to him was far beyond what a title could cover, but he couldn't find a better excuse, so he could only claim it first.

The lantern carried "Since I see a gentleman, Yunhu doesn't like it" floated so far that they couldn't see it, so Xiao Qichen turned his head and tugged at Su Yan: "It's almost time to go back to the palace."

Su Yan said: "I'll take you to the gate of the palace."

They return tacitly from the tranquility of the other world to the reality of troubles and turmoil.The farther away from the Qinhuai River all the way, the dreamlike scenery is always like Penglai fairy mountain, fleeting, only the person beside you can grow old with you.

The author has something to say: *Note: The customs of offering sacrifices to heaven and the meeting on the first day of the first lunar month are based on the comprehensive books of "Liang Shu", "Zhizheng Jinling New Records" and "Beiyuan Poetry Talk", and they are still photographed in Nanjing Museum A few profile photos, non-original quotes from w.

Recently, I am not sure whether to update each time as much as possible.

I had to write in the middle of the night every day when I was going through the formalities of leaving school =-=